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The year of the Wood Snake

1/9/2025

 
The 32nd cycle of the 60 year lunar calendar. They say that this will be a year of potential, opportunity, renewal and transformation. Thinking strategic planning for significant changes this is the time. What are you going to make of it?
Chinese New Year is the end of the month, starting on January 29, 2025 and ending on February 16, 2026.

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We are saying goodbye to the wood dragon. Was it a year of growth, expansion, and transformation for you? The Wood element represents vitality, flexibility, and harmony. The green color signifies freshness, renewal, and hope. This was a year to pursue your dreams, embrace new opportunities, and overcome challenges with confidence and optimism.
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​Chinese Horoscope 2025 – Year of the Snake

Summertime Allergies

5/23/2023

 
Slide Show: In video format. Please Pause to gain the information that you need. More references and other information to follow.

Healing Broken Bones

2/5/2023

 
When it comes to healing broken bones, it is important to look at nutrition, minerals, Chinese herbals and acupuncture.

Nutrition
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Nutrition plays an important role in the healing process. Eating foods that are high in calcium, magnesium, and other minerals helps to strengthen bones. Eating foods high in Vitamin D and K can also help the body absorb the minerals more efficiently. Foods like salmon, and kale are great sources of these vitamins and minerals.
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Foods High in Magnesium
  • Dark leafy greens such as spinach and Swiss chard
  • Nuts and seeds such as pumpkin seeds, almonds, and cashews
  • Fish such as salmon, mackerel, and tuna
  • Legumes such as black beans, lentils, and kidney beans
  • Fruits such as bananas, avocado, and dried apricots
  • Dark chocolate
  • Tofu
  • Yogurt
  • Whole grains such as quinoa and brown rice
  • Avocado
  • Figs
  • Bananas
Foods High in Calcium
  • Fortified orange juice
  • Spinach
  • Kale
  • Broccoli
  • Bok Choy
  • other leafy greens
  • Almonds
  • Seeds
  • Beans and Lentils
  • Rhubarb
  • Amaranth
  • Figs
Combining the appropriate ingredients above into a regular green smoothie or juice daily with collagen peptides will provide the nutrients that your body needs to rebuild and heal.

Chinese herbs
Chinese Medicine can help heal broken bones. They can also reduce swelling and inflammation. Thing is rather than just self diagnosis make sure with a chinese herbalist that the formula and herbs are appropriate for you. Herbal formulas are meant to be balanced so just choosing an herb and taking it isn't going to give you the benefits that you are hoping for.

There are formulas that are meant for enhancing bone strength and formation and these are Osteo8 and The Great Mender.
The Great Mender is a tea pill about the size of a BB pellet. A lot goes into making those tiny pills. The brand that these come from has been around for a long time but uses talcum powder in their process.
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Osteo8 is a capsule with ingredients:
INGREDIENTS:
  • Lu Jiao (Cornu Cervi)
  • Gui Ban (Plastrum Testudinis)
  • Ren SHen (Rx/Rz Ginseng)
  • E Jiao (Colla Corii Asini)
  • Xu Duan (Radix Dipsaci)
  • Dang Gui (Radix Angelicae Sinensis)
  • Gu Sui Bu (Rhizoma Drynariae)
Acupuncture
Acupuncture is another technique that can help with healing broken bones. It helps with the circulation of energy, blood and nerve flow in the body, which helps to promote healing. Additionally, acupuncture can help to reduce pain, inflammation, and swelling.

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Visualization
Visualization is a way of internal communication. You are delivering instructions to accomplish something.

Have you ever used visualization in sports? It helps develop mental strength and focus, as well as enhance physical performance. Visualizing success in sport leads to making improvements to your focus and techniques leads to more confidence, motivation and being better prepared for challenges.
Moving this type of visualization into healing can do wonders for energy and the nervous system as you heal from your injury. Giving instruction as you practice (visualize) activities in their specific actions like stepping and weight bearing through a damaged ankle, remembering the support that it provides. sending the neural signals for an action without performing the actionMore on visualization in another post. I also have guided visualizations available.
In conclusion, nutrition, minerals, Chinese herbals, and acupuncture can all be beneficial for healing broken bones. Eating the right foods and using the visualization techniques can help the healing process significantly.

Covid-Sars-2: Dread Pirate Roberts

1/13/2022

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An attempt at Humor in These Harrowing Times.
Working on the website until all hours of the morning this popped into my head. 
The virus is the pirate name and the strains are the inheritors all saying "Ah fine job surviving today, surely kill you tomorrow!" 
Spontaneous Laughter
​laughter produces psychological benefits, such as improving affect, depression, anxiety, and stress
Self induced laughter
significantly greater drop in blood pressure...
significant drop in cortisol levels
The Laughter Prescription: A Tool for Lifestyle Medicine- 
Dexter Louie, BA, Karolina Brook, MD, and Elizabeth Frates, MD 
Download link

​​Humor & laughing the best medicine

Laughter has both mental emotional and physiological benefits depending on the type of laughter being spontaneous or self induced.
I am closing the videos with one of my favorite people that is an inspiration...Patch Adams.
What/who do you like to laugh to?
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So Much Smoke...Staying Healthy

9/7/2017

 
Fires here in the Northwest and the whole West coast has made for an interesting summer. My gratitude goes to those who are working the fires.

Our health is being challenged due to particles that are small enough to get deep into lungs and cross from the alveolar sacs to the blood. PM stands for particulate matter. PM2.5  are the particles that are making it hazy out. 
  • How small is 2.5 micrometers (microns= 0.000001 meter)? Think about a single hair from your head. The average human hair is about 70 micrometers in diameter – making it 30 times larger than the largest fine particle.
External Protection: A mask that can block this would be a great move.
Understanding the mask decriptions. I went to buy a mask this morning just knowing the PM2.5 number There was only one left at $40 and I hadn't done any online research to see what the description meant, so I have included below these below. No, I didnt get that one it just seemed to be too big for more purposes than just this. I also didnt choose disposables as the fit is harder to get a good seal.
Respirator Rating Letter Class
  • N - Not oil resistant
  • R - Resistant to oil
  • P - Oil Proof

Respirator Rating Number Class
  • 95 - Removes 95% of all particles that are at least 0.3 microns in diameter
  • 99 - Removes 99% of particles that are at least 0.3 microns in diameter
  • 100 - Removes 99.97% of all particles that are 0.3 microns in diameter or larger. HE or HEPA quality filter. So this to me seems the best as 2.5 microns>0.3 microns. We are ordinarily subjected to a lot of environmental issues so during this extra-ordinary time if we can keep our extra exposures minimalized this would be best for our health.
The fit
Straps need to go around head for a good fit to be firm around the mouth and nose to make sure that there is a good seal and all air goes through the filters and not around it. ones that go around the ears do not make a good seal.
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Internal healing 
Between the Vancouver, BC fires we have been subjected to this smoke for what feels like weeks. How can we heal from all of this?
Qigong- movements and visualizations that help you mobilize and focus your immune system
Moving your lymph, Yes this is cardio, it is trampoline activity, Chi machine, Lymph Drainage Therapy all help. Lymph is a separate system from arterial and venous blood flow it helps move larger molecules that are in your tissues back to your circulatory system.
Sounds can help our immune function properly function through vibrations that cause organs to vibrate (massage) through resonance or the nervous or immune systems to function better, as we are just more relaxed allowing the parasympathetic system to to do it's work, I found the 2 videos below and the frequencies relaxing and was able to take full breaths within minutes of continued listening to them. I invite to test them for yourselves. Headphones or a soundbath being between 2 stereo speakers will enhance your experience. The first one is my favorite.
Increasing your water intake, increasing vitamin D3, and anti-oxidants is important. More information on herbs and vitamins lifestyle suggestions can be found here: Bear medicinal herbals.

References​
https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basics
Choosing a mask: 
http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/resources/dust-masks-whats-the-difference.html
http://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/Pubs/334-353.pdf​

More on Sunscreens

7/16/2017

 
Dr. Axe has published a list of sunscreens that are healthier than others. 
Please checkout his page: ​https://draxe.com/best-sunscreens/

It's Summer 2017, are sunscreens still TOXIC?

7/8/2017

 
Across the last couple of weeks, I have cringed when patients have commented that they have been slathering on the sun screen as they are gardening and playing in our glorious furnace days of summer.  I was remembering the study that showed that the majority of sunscreens were toxic. That study was released 3 years ago. With only remembering that they contained chemicals that were incompatible with our well being thus our long term health.
Dermal exposure of chemicals can result in systemic toxicity influencing our susceptibility to other disease and and even allergic reactions and energy levels. Remember that a toxic load keeps the inflammation process activated.

The Chemicals to Check your sunscreen for:
  • oxybenzone
  • avobenzone
  • octisalate
  • octocrylene
  • homosalate
  • octinoxate.
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Hey better living through chemistry, right? Not!
Some questions to ask:
Does a chemical influence hormones, immune function, is it disruptive to the liver or kidneys or other organs as it gets broken down or passes through your system or stays in your blood? How will chemicals effect pregnant woman and children. How will it effect fertility? 
According to the EWG research the above chemicals are estrogenic, may disrupt the thyroid, as well as other endocrine glands. Oxybenzone is major endocrine disruptor messing with sperm count and endometriosis.
There are a variety of brands that may be safe. These lists are available on the wellnessmama.com link as well as the EWG site. We also have to ask who is paying for us to be able to get this information and how it might be biased. Wellness mama also has a link on that page that is a recipe for making your own sunscreen and she states if you wouldn't eat it don't put on your skin and I completely agree with this.

The EWG makes the following suggestions on what you can do to protect yourself from sun damage.

Check your skin regularly for new moles that are tender or growing. Ask your primary care doctor how often you should see a dermatologist.
The best defenses against getting too much harmful UV radiation are protective clothing, shade and timing.
  • Don’t get burned. Red, sore, blistered or peeling skin means far too much sun – and raises your skin cancer risk.
  • Wear clothes. Shirts, hats, shorts and pants provide the best protection from UV rays – and they don’t coat your skin with goop.
  • Find shade – or make it. Picnic under a tree, read beneath an umbrella or take a canopy to the beach. Keep infants in the shade – they lack the tanning pigments, known as melanin, that protect skin.
  • Plan around the sun. Go outdoors in early morning or late afternoon, when the sun is lower. UV radiation peaks at midday.
  • Sunglasses aren’t just a fashion accessory. Good shades protect your eyes from UV radiation that causes cataracts.
Sunglasses? I am not sure that I agree with this, an article for another time.

References:

  • The study from 2014 on toxicity http://www.ewg.org/sunscreen/
  • https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/skin/default.html​
  • https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/basic_info/sun-safety.htm
  • https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/skin/statistics/state.htm
  • https://draxe.com/75-of-sunscreens-are-toxic-what-to-do-instead/
  • https://wellnessmama.com/55366/sunscreen-is-harmful/
  • https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3538462/
  • https://medicalxpress.com/news/2009-03-melanoma-deadly-skin-cancer-rapidly.html

Chloramine! Not for swimming in, nor drinking

5/23/2017

 
Chlorine and ammonia = Chloramines = Pool smell or chlorine smell of your drinking water.

In a swimming pool, This reaction occurs because of sweat, oils and urine combining with the chlorine in the pool or the chloramine being used as disinfectant. In drinking water it is used as a disinfectant and not removed by most popular drinking filters.

Chloramine is a weaker but more persistent and stable disinfectant than chlorine. If your water smells like chlorine after leaving a glass of water out it is the chloramine that you are smelling.
In the swimming Pool the excessive pool smell, burning eyes, red skin is caused by the concentration of chloramine being high.
For ingestion, they say that saliva and stomach acid break down the 
molecule, yet the same article says that it is eliminated in waste.

References:
  1. https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/environmental-toxins/chlorine-free-swimming-pools/
  2. https://bestwaterpurificationblog.com/the-health-effects-of-chloramine-and-how-to-remove-it/
  3. https://chlorine.americanchemistry.com/Science-Center/Chlorine-Compound-of-the-Month-Library/Chloramines-Understanding-Pool-Smell/
  4. https://www.epa.gov/dwreginfo/chloramines-drinking-water
  5. https://www.emdmillipore.com/Web-US-Site/en_CA/-/USD/ProcessMSDS-Start?PlainSKU=MDA_CHEM-101632&Origin=PDP
  6. http://www.chloramine.org/chloraminefacts.htm

Here we go...

5/16/2017

 
Actually, I have been going since last July. I am renting spaces at the two Cascade Acupuncture Clinics in Hood River and The Dalles during closed hours offering my services in light touch techniques to help both CAC patients and others. This is primarily Time of Service, HSA,,  auto accident. Super Bills can be offered to those that have massage benefits for those that would like to self file insurance.
​Also appearing here shortly will be the facebook posts that I share on my business page. The facebook link is in the footer below. 

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